Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross and onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Retired Judge (U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) Learned Hand (who in October withdrew from the commission because of illness); Clark Kerr, president of the University of California; James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime special assistant to President Eisenhower for science and technology; George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. These members had the help of 14 experts, who in turn drew...
...Kerr's Colossus...
Congratulations on your Clark Kerr cover and story. While a mere student at Cal, I had the good fortune of meeting him. I can only say that he seemed to epitomize all that is democratic and humanistic in the American public educational tradition...
TIME quotes Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, as saying: "You use it like a plumber uses a wrench." Kerr talks good, like a college head should...
Fandango. No public campus in the country has moved faster in that direction than California's Berkeley, the Buckingham Palace of Clark Kerr's empire, across the bay from San Francisco. Few campuses boast an odder beginning. Berkeley's impecunious parent was a Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...